Parenting Skills of Atticus Finch

Scout Finch, in Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird, is six years old. She lives in what seems to be a secluded area that is a world of its own. "People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" (11).

Scout's two close relatives include her brother Jem, who is 10, and her father, Atticus. Atticus comes from Finch's landing, a little while away from Maycomb County. He went to study law in Mobile, Alabama, and helped put his brother, Jack, through medical school. Caroline, the children's mother died when Scout was 2. Atticus was left alone with the responsibility...